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Protecting the VMware Only Data Center – Unitrends Briefing Note

Posted on May 8, 2018 by George Crump

Today, companies that make up the “M” part of small to medium sized businesses (SMB) as well as small enterprises, have data centers that are 100% or close to 100% virtualized, leveraging VMware as their hypervisor. There are no “teams”…

Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, DRaaS, Hypervisor, Ransomware, SMB, Unitrends, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Webinar: Three Reasons Why Object Storage is the Best Defense against Ransomware Attacks

Posted on April 26, 2018 by George Crump

Backups, by themselves, are not an effective defense against a ransomware attack. The systems that store backup data also require protection, but backup storage is as vulnerable to a ransomware attack as production data, if not more so. If both…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, NAS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, Unstructured data
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Meeting the Five Unstructured Data Backup Requirements

Posted on April 25, 2018 by George Crump

In the last blog, we laid out the five requirements for unstructured data protection; fine-grained backups, frequent and rapid backups; cloud support, data classification, and an archiving future. Aparavi is one of the first data protection companies specifically focused on…

Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Ransomware, Retention, Unstructured data
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The Requirements for Modern Unstructured Data Protection

Posted on April 23, 2018 by George Crump

Unstructured data presents two challenges that organizations need to deal with; the sheer volume of data and the quantity of files in the data sets. Storing this data is a problem in and of itself, but protecting it is an…

Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Ransomware, Retention, Unstructured data
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For SDS on NAS, Hardware Matters – iXsystems Briefing Note

Posted on April 17, 2018 by George Crump

A well established concept in the Network Attached Storage (NAS) market is Software Defined Storage (SDS). SDS is tailor-made for NAS, as a file system is, after all, a software construct and it should run on any hardware. While SDS…

Tagged with: Encryption, iXSystems, NAS, NVDIMM, NVMe, Object Storage, Ransomware, SAN, SDS, VM, VMware
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Why the Cloud Breaks Backup

Posted on April 5, 2018 by George Crump

For organizations that realize their backups are broken, the cloud appears to be an appealing way out of the mess. The problem is most legacy backup applications don’t have integrated cloud support, so leveraging the cloud either requires a bolt-on…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Data Sprawl, Hybrid, NFS, Ransomware, Replication, RPO, RTO, SaaS, SMB
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Webinar: 10 Reasons Why Backup Breaks and How to Fix It

Posted on April 2, 2018 by George Crump

IT professionals have been struggling to develop a consistent, reliable backup strategy since the beginning of the data center. Yet the more the data center has evolved, the more difficult the task of successfully protecting data has become. Now, for…

Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Copy Data, Data Sprawl, Endpoint, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Hyperscale, Ransomware, Scale, VM
Posted in Webinar

Why Backup Breaks and How to Fix it

Posted on March 29, 2018 by George Crump

For most organizations backup, the process of regularly and consistently protecting production data, is fundamentally broken. As a result, these organizations have very little confidence in IT’s ability to recover data at all, let alone promptly. To try to fix…

Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Data Sprawl, Endpoint, Hyperconverged, Ransomware, Replication, RPO, RTO, Snapshot, Sprawl
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5 Key Trends that Could Challenge Your Data Protection Plan in 2018

Posted on March 26, 2018 by George Crump

The goal of data protection is to protect the organization from outages. The scope of these outages can impact an application, a server, a storage system or an entire data center. IT faces the challenge of restoring the most recent…

Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, dev/ops, Encryption, Hybrid, IoT, Micro Focus, Ransomware, ROBO, SLA
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How To Bring Tape Back to the Mid-Market Data Center – Spectra Logic Briefing Note

Posted on March 20, 2018 by George Crump

Tape is not dead. It has three valuable use cases. First, it is still a great backup of last resort. The copy of data an organization can count on when everything else has failed. Second, it is ideal for organizations…